VALUE OF DAMAGE EVIDENCE

Examination of damage evidence often reveals how a process or event transpired. This information is essential for trouble-shooting the failure of consumer products and components. Understanding how manufacturing defects arise and trigger product failure can facilitate swift, appropriate counter-measures. Forensic scientists characterise the materials and properties of the product, and perform simulation experiments to identify potential causes of the damage, thus ascertaining whether damage resulted from natural wear and tear, misuse, accident, deliberate human action or criminal activity.

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WHY THE FORENSIC EXPERTS GROUP

While heading the Forensic Chemistry & Physics Laboratory at the Health Sciences Authority from the mid-1990s till 2013, TFEG’s senior consultants developed forensic examinations of damage on clothing, and new sub-disciplines such as manufacturing marks, newspapers and plastic bags. This forensic discipline gained the acceptance of the Singapore courts, and was successfully applied to many local cases.